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"Tuesday morning, I spent an hour with a neurologist trying to figure out why I kept tripping over my feet. He pushed and pulled on my legs, whacked me with a reflex hammer and shone a light so deep into my eyes I thought it might illuminate the wall behind my head. That afternoon, I drove home and ordered a new backpacking tent."
Pain is an unforgiving equalizer--forget social status, race or gender. For people suffering from chronic pain, "real life" can get lost among endless appointments, diagnoses, prescriptions and medical bills. Living a life beyond mere survival becomes as big a battle as fighting the pain itself.
Drawing on her experiences as both a patient and a health-care professional, the author candidly describes her sudden transition from a healthy, active lifestyle to years of learning to live with debilitating pain.
Table des matières
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
¿1.¿Who I Was
¿2.¿Becoming Chronic
¿3.¿Pills and More Pills
¿4.¿Normal Pain Before Chronic Pain
¿5.¿Insight and an MRI
¿6.¿Pain Management
¿7.¿Side Effects
¿8.¿Pain and Social Media
¿9.¿First Neck, Then Low Back
10.¿EMDR
11.¿Traveling, Backpacking and Defiance
12.¿Dystonia and More Specialists
13.¿Disability and a New Tattoo
14.¿The Power of Exercise
15.¿From Patient to Caregiver
16.¿The Expense of Chronic Pain
17.¿Hope, a New Puppy and a Long Hike
18.¿Memories and Mind Control
19.¿The Military Question
20.¿Stronger
21.¿A Bad Fall
22.¿Discovering Yoga
23.¿What I Would Have Done
Epilogue
Suggested Reading and Resources
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Victoria Stopp's writing has appeared in various newspapers and magazines and on several websites. Her essays have been published in multiple anthologies and she was a 2017 recipient of a Wildacres residency. She lives in Pensacola, Florida.
